'Scarecrow' definitions:
Definition of 'scarecrow'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Scarecrow'
From: GCIDE
- Scarecrow \Scare"crow`\, n.
- 1. Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger. [1913 Webster]
- A scarecrow set to frighten fools away. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A person clad in rags and tatters. [1913 Webster]
- No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march with them through Coventry, that's flat. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Zool.) The black tern. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'scarecrow'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- baboon,
- bag,
- blemish,
- blot,
- bogey,
- bogeyman,
- bugaboo,
- bugbear,
- bust,
- carving,
- dog,
- doll,
- dolly,
- Dracula,
- dummy,
- eyesore,
- fantoccini,
- fee-faw-fum,
- figure,
- figurehead,
- figurine,
- Frankenstein,
- fright,
- frightener,
- gargoyle,
- ghost,
- ghoul,
- gingerbread man,
- hag,
- harridan,
- hobgoblin,
- holy terror,
- horror,
- incubus,
- lay figure,
- man of straw,
- manikin,
- mannequin,
- marionette,
- mess,
- model,
- monster,
- monstrosity,
- monument,
- nightmare,
- no beauty,
- ogre,
- ogress,
- phantom,
- portrait bust,
- puppet,
- revenant,
- scarebabe,
- scarer,
- sculpture,
- sight,
- snowman,
- specter,
- statuary,
- statue,
- statuette,
- succubus,
- tatterdemalion,
- teratism,
- terror,
- ugly duckling,
- vampire,
- wax figure,
- waxwork,
- werewolf,
- witch,
- Wolf-man,
- wood carving